Tuesday, October 30, 2012

No matter what columnists with Leader-Post / Saskatoon Star Phoenix write ... the Sask Party is nervous about the NDP leadership race ...

Hot on the heel's of their TV attack ad, the Saskatchewan Party is
now using the proceedings of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly to
show how nervous they are over issues being discussed in the NDP
Leadership Campaign. Case in point is the logic challenging 'Member's Statement' delivered
today by Sask Party MLA & former cabinet minister, Daryl
Hickie:Mr. Hickie: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Saskatchewan's NDP [New
Democratic Party] leadership candidates have at least one thing in
common: they refuse to stand up for Saskatchewan. When asked by the
media yesterday about whether they support their federal leader's Dutch
disease attack on Western Canada's resource sector, one of the
candidates said he supports Thomas Mulcair's position.

NDP
leadership candidate Erin Weir told reporters he was in complete
agreement with his federal leader's position that our resource sector is
bad for Canada. At least we know where he stands, unlike two of his
leadership rivals sitting in the Saskatchewan legislature. When
reporters asked the members for Regina Rosemont and Saskatoon Massey
Place whether they support Thomas Mulcair's Dutch disease diagnosis,
they dodged reporters' questions with evasive language, refusing to
answer with a simple yes or no if they agree with the federal leader.

I'm
sure both members are familiar with Mark Carney, the governor of the
Bank of Canada, who called the Dutch disease argument a "scapegoat,"
"overly simplistic," and dead "wrong," and went on to say, "The strength
of Canada's resource sector is a reflection of success, not a harbinger
of failure."

Mr. Speaker, we still don't know where those two members stand on Mulcair's attacks against Saskatchewan's economy, but I'm sure these members now have something to say, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

This
is well beyond any tongue in cheek political antics between political
rivals ... it is a concerted effort to try and interfere with public
perception of the NDP's internal leadership debate and selection
process.

Funny statements coming from a backbencher MLA who was not highly regarded as a member of the Prince Albert Police Service. My late father was a 32 year member of the PAPS. Mr Hickie should be standing up for the citizens of PA by demanding funding for a SECOND BRIDGE AND A NEW REGIONAL HOSPITAL TO REPLACE THE CROWDED vIC